LONDON - Delivery of the first of ten 2,500 h.p. General Motors
replacement locomotives was made here to W.J. Presley (right), General Manager of the Company's Eastern
Region, by V.L. Snow (left), President and General Manager of General Motors Diesel Limited. Mr. Presley is
seen here receiving a small-scale replica of the big unit in background. At centre is G.G. Sayer, Company
superintendent at London.
New Company Express Terminal at Halifax
A truck and trailer are loaded on a flat car at Winnipeg - July 1956 CP
Corporate Archives.
HALIFAX - A new Canadian Pacific Express terminal, offering improved facilities and
service in this east coast area, is now in operation. Located on Kempt Road, the terminal is designed to
handle Dominion Atlantic Railway's less-than-carload freight and Smith Transport (Maritimes) Ltd., truck
traffic, in addition to regular express shipments.
The need for a new terminal became apparent with the
acquisition of Smith Transport's operations in the Maritimes by CP Express. The resulting increase in truck
traffic necessitated expansion of facilities and a larger surrounding area.
The terminal is equipped with 16
loading doors for pickup and delivery trucks, and its T-shaped platform extends to a newly-built rail spur
line. Design of the terminal will allow for anticipated expansion.
Portable Piggyback Facilities Moved to B.C. Power Sites
VANCOUVER - Canadian Pacific piggyback service has headed into the interior of
British Columbia to aid in the distribution of material for the huge power projects now under way in the
Province.
To provide these new areas with piggyback service, the Company
is purchasing a second portable piggyback loading-unloading ramp which can be transported anywhere by a
regular highway tractor, or shipped by rail piggyback to any location on short notice. By using the portable
ramp, Canadian Pacific can supply service to points where there is no permanent installation.
In instances such as the B.C. projects, where the volume of
trailer handling fluctuates with the various steps of completion of each phase of the projects, construction
costs for permanent installations could be economically unfeasible. The portable ramp has the effect of not
only cutting costs, but gives the railway added flexibility to reach all piggyback customers.
Canadian Pacific was the first railway in Canada to place a
portable ramp in regular service when, in May, last year, it introduced the method at Sherbrooke, P.Q. to
provide facilities to meet a seasonal increase in piggyback traffic.
The ramp can be lowered to or picked up from the ground at the
front end in about a minute by means of a hydraulic landing gear which is operated from the tractor battery.
With the front end of the ramp on the ground and the rear end against a string of railway flat cars, large
piggyback trailers can be moved on and off flat cars with ease.
When one operation is completed, the ramp can be shifted to
another track by tractor, providing almost unlimited handling capacity without the expense or time involved in
permanent facilities. Δ
Sea-Going Iron Horse
A 40 ton French locomotive with its 19 ton tender, that went to sea and became
a temporary member of the Canadian Pacific fleet, arrived at Montreal recently aboard CPSS Beaverelm. It was
carried on the ship's heavily-shored after-deck and sported CP's checkered house-flag on its smoke stack.
Built in 1883 and retired in 1964, the locomotive was donated by the French National Railways to the Canadian
Railway Historical Association for its museum at Delson, P.Q.
This Canadian Pacific Spanner article is copyright 1965 by the Canadian Pacific
Railway and is reprinted here with their permission. All logos, and trademarks are the property of the
Canadian Pacific Railway Company.
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